Napoleon, I thought of you this morning when I read this:
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
Ironically, on my list of verses, I added this morning (before I read this) "Jesus wept. John 11:35" (said like that because it is one of those verses from childhood that I memorized mindlessly and remains in me, with the tone of voice I probably used as a child when reciting it at Sunday school). I added it today because I have been given permission to grieve, by these words and others in the Bible, all the tragedies of the past few years, including this most recent tragedy, which I feel closely connected to because I used to live very close to that church/school. In adding the verse to my list, I read the entire passage about Lazarus and his sister, and it had new meaning today - because of all the things for which I weep.
The whole trans tyranny is boring theater. Satan enjoys it because it causes chaos, physically and mentally.
Ignore it. Look to Jesus and God.
Jesus said: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
Jesus is peace, physically and mentally. That is the way, truth and life. Not trans tyranny where narcissists run amok, drugged out of their minds, destroying lives and making the world a living hell.
Ignore trans tyranny. Praise God and help others instead of obsessing about the demons destroying the world.
Yes. Satan is of course himself (I use the term himself loosely) which is why the madness occurs to day as he has now completely lost any marbles he once had. I call him Loopy Luci.
Napoleon, someone shared this blog post from Dr. Katherine Koonce, the Head of School at Covenant who tragically lost her life. This was written during early COVID. She has a poignant reminder to open our heart to whatever trial God brings our way. I wanted to share the beauty with you.
I ache for Nashville and the Covenant community, I ache for all of us, I ache for the families impacted directly and tangentially, I ache that evil gives us yet another trial to endure. But I am reminded that God is with us whatever comes our way.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
And ridicule the ridiculous as this will help make your heart glad too. Demons hate laughter from the children of God.
That was beautiful Jennifer. Whatever God wants He will get and it is good. Such a hard thing for us humans to live by, but is needed. I am so working on that in my life now. I am reminded of what Jesus said to me once during my most depressive period - "everything is as it should be."
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 - which came to me over the pandemic in an advertisment for a t-shirt that says "Perhaps You Were Made For a Time Like This"
I am trying to keep an open mind to other people's lives and the fact that we all live in troubling situations and that our Heavenly Father loves each and everyone of us. We are living on an earth that is being poisoned by nefarious forces through our air, water, food, medications,and etc. So no wonder the world is in commotion and confusion.
It's a mess, but I guess it always has been. God gave us free will and we do what we like, but when it comes to the children, I have a hard time with the evil we are doing to them. Even Jesus warned against destroying the children.
Yes, the first part of Matthew chapter 18 comes to my mind, especially verse 6 regarding the millstone and verse 8 regarding cutting off offending hands and feet. This is serious information about consequences for offending little children.
Most likely not. Narcissists always look for ways to get what they want. They will use surrogates/donors to procreate, like gay people do. And then raise the children in their trans tyranny.
From the above link: "With the recent school shooter Audrey Hale, most of the focus has been on the shooter presumably taking testosterone, as this can trigger aggression. While like many things, this potentially explains what happened, in the reports I found where testosterone led to homicidal behavior, it required a pre-existing psychiatric illness (which would typically be treated with a violence inducing psychiatric medication) to also be present. Since a clear link has already been established to psychiatric medications causing this behavior (and based on the shooter’s background it is likely some were prescribed), I would suggest that until more information becomes known, the standard psychiatric medication violence it is a more probable explanation for the recent tragic events."
This is one witness. I have seen plenty of others over the years, and I was on one of the meds mentioned in the post (a tricyclic, not an SSRI), and I have directly experienced how it can affect the mind, blurring the line between awake and asleep. I didn't know better back then, and I believed the "chemical imbalance" lie until I eventually read one of the books that exposed it. I ended up taking myself off of it, and solving the problem another way, by reconciling with God. Depression suddenly gone after most of 40 years. (That was my experience; others may have more severe difficulties. I know someone now, a believer, that is struggling greatly with psych diagnoses and meds.)
So wait and see; we don't know about this latest case. But the historical pattern is pretty clear.
You are absolutely right. I can only imagine the amount of meds that person was on. Your experience with mind-altering meds for depression mirrors my own. I also believed the"chemical imbalance" lie. Depression/anxiety meds are worse than the covid shots, especially for children who are put on them for life. My life long depression was cured by one prayer, immediately.
Well, I have to give you credit for not mentioning transsexuals, of which I am one. What we are seeing could be described as a fusion of transgenderism with medical treatment originally intended only for transsexuals. The safeguards, such as they were, that were designed to prevent this kind of thing from happening were officially eliminated as of last year. It is all quite evil.
I have not been a fan of the word "transgender", let alone "transgenderism". I used it for a brief time when I was sorting out what had been going on with me, a process of self-diagnosis 20 years ago, but then when things clarified, I dropped it like a hot potato. The word "transgender" was originally coined by a doctor whose name I forget, and was so broadly defined from the start as to be largely meaningless. That makes it a perfect word for the current madness. It was then picked up by a cross-dresser who claimed, falsely, to have coined it, and who used it to mean essentially a cross-dresser that is not transsexual.
I hope that clarifies everything. If I hadn't lived among the trans community for five years, it wouldn't make any sense to me either. There was some very weird stuff going on with the transsexuals as well, and that is what the safeguards -- the gatekeepers -- were supposed to be for. Now it's all merged and weird and there apparently are no gatekeepers, just salespeople. It makes me sick to think about this, and mostly I don't think about it too much.
For some strange reason you don't find too many transsexuals in the the conservative Christian world. I wonder why. I knew one other personally, a Roman Catholic who eventually left that church over the "counseling" she received. The cross-dressers are stealthier, and seem to feel less pressure to leave, although from what I can tell from our local scene, by now most of them have given up on God. Meanwhile the conservative churches (I don't care what "denomination") continue in their own sexual sins, while pointing the finger at others as the guilty ones deserving of persecution. (So watch out with that one, it's a trap.) I am so glad Jesus didn't behave like that.
I don't know for sure what I am doing back with these churches, other than that that is where God led me. I have no other excuse for it. I'm on my third one now. I am not "stealth" because that would not only be dishonest but would be at odds with reality, and I must therefore participate on the fringes. The "church hesitant" claim in my Substack profile is an understatement. I am no longer God-hesitant, however. Biblically, I seem to be a "Matthew 19:12a". I do wish I had understood the message from this verse about "don't marry if you are one of these". But I did receive other warnings, that I ignored.
If you want to understand what happened with this latest shooter, forget the trans malarkey (we've already been through this with "dangerous" autistic people -- hey, I'm both!) and look for evidence of psych med usage, just as with the other shooters. I'm not saying this one isn't an exception, but I will be surprised if it is.
Interesting comment. I truly don't know what a transsexual is. Seriously. All I know is that men want to be women and women want to be men in this society and if you don't lop off your God-given genitals when you are a child it is discrimination and evil. It doesn't sound right to me. I don't know your personal history other than what you've written here, but God called you back to Him for a reason. Just follow Him in everything He says and does. I am no longer the person I was even five years ago and that is a good thing.
"Transsexual" was at one time a medical diagnosis, a psychiatric one, based upon stated symptoms. Now, I have no idea how it is being used. Because the diagnosis was determined from what the patient said, many different underlying situations could have led to it, and that is one reason the hormone & surgery gatekeepers were so important. But still, it was not as broadly defined as "transgender", which could mean just about anything.
What I know about it is from my personal experience, not from the WPATH of 20 years ago. Very early in life, when I was just coming to understand that there were girls and boys, and noticing that they were somehow different, I saw the girls as similar to me and the boys as something rather different, a difference that would widen over time. There was no sexual aspect to it at that age (and I don't know my age then, but I was walking and talking).
I must have said something to my mother about it, and it can't have gone well. I blocked most of the memory. That is when I went into the closet. In that state, I developed some fairly severe mental problems that I have never shared with anyone and am not planning to. But I will mention that they existed. It's not a good way to treat a child, forcing him or her into silence.
Prior to puberty I had a plan to "change sides" when I grew up and left home. It wasn't much of a plan -- that was the entire plan. I was an only child and I did not know anything about "anatomical differences".
At puberty, the boys went one way, the girls went another, and I liked going for walks instead, uninterested in what they were doing. I would eventually figure out that I am asexual, perhaps something to do with brain damage at birth coupled with endocrine dysfunction and the resulting partially-failed puberty.
At about the same time, I learned about the anatomical differences. I won't go into detail, but let's just say it was an unusual way to find out, from reading something I found in a wastebasket, and leave it at that, and that my parents told me nothing. That was the start of 40+ years of gender dysphoria, as my plan fell apart, not to be revived until I was around 55 and contemplating the cancer risk posed by the endocrine disorder. The severe depression had ended at age 40, however, as I mentioned previously.
Part of this story is typical of transsexuals, and part of it -- the endocrine disorder, the asexuality, and the eventual cancer -- is not. I associate the term with early childhood onset, and no change in gender identity throughout life. The medical industry has been more "flexible" with the definition, presumably in order to expand their customer base. The actual standard was that it was necessary to satisfy the gatekeepers, important for malpractice insurance coverage I assume. Now, as of 2022, the gatekeepers are gone.
I've mentioned the gatekeepers repeatedly without saying anything else about them. For me they were a PhD psychologist, an MMFC counselor, and an MD (this one also a DO). The MD required letters from the psychologist and counselor to prescribe hormones (I took estradiol at low dose; it was not really necessary but I wanted to see if it helped with my autism). The surgeon, Dr. Toby Meltzer, required letters from all three. It was a long process, culminating in a "Real Life Experience" year that was largely redundant in my case, but important generally because of the subjective nature of the diagnosis. It was meant as an opportunity to back out without any major irreversible effects. For me, it was a time for cancer diagnosis and treatment. A surgical cancellation opening let me shorten it to 10 months.
Now, the gatekeepers are no more and all caution has been thrown to the wind. "Irreversible" has become "profitable" (more surgery, cancer treatment, or whatever). My guess is that suicide rates are up, not down, but who's counting.
Thank you for that very personal information CM. I was thinking about you and thought maybe God needs you to counter this current trans tyranny movement of chaos and destruction. As you note, the gatekeepers are all gone (chaos) and there is no pushback from those who have gone before. God needs you to help. That's just my two cents.
Napoleon, I thought of you this morning when I read this:
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
How about some humour to lighten the load if you haven't seen this? God says ridicule the ridiculous and the demons explode.
Trans-gressors can be forgiven and healed.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/transgender-and-other-trans-words-definitions/
Napoloen, another one to share in light of this tragedy:
https://scottsauls.substack.com/p/weeping-in-nashville?publication_id=1386100&post_id=111223066&isFreemail=true&fbclid=IwAR2OIHbllbekzp0z8k2FboHyEjRurL7Qn0MKtskaRBmTT_jNI8Lb46s4RJk
Ironically, on my list of verses, I added this morning (before I read this) "Jesus wept. John 11:35" (said like that because it is one of those verses from childhood that I memorized mindlessly and remains in me, with the tone of voice I probably used as a child when reciting it at Sunday school). I added it today because I have been given permission to grieve, by these words and others in the Bible, all the tragedies of the past few years, including this most recent tragedy, which I feel closely connected to because I used to live very close to that church/school. In adding the verse to my list, I read the entire passage about Lazarus and his sister, and it had new meaning today - because of all the things for which I weep.
The whole trans tyranny is boring theater. Satan enjoys it because it causes chaos, physically and mentally.
Ignore it. Look to Jesus and God.
Jesus said: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
Jesus is peace, physically and mentally. That is the way, truth and life. Not trans tyranny where narcissists run amok, drugged out of their minds, destroying lives and making the world a living hell.
Ignore trans tyranny. Praise God and help others instead of obsessing about the demons destroying the world.
Yes. Satan is of course himself (I use the term himself loosely) which is why the madness occurs to day as he has now completely lost any marbles he once had. I call him Loopy Luci.
Napoleon, someone shared this blog post from Dr. Katherine Koonce, the Head of School at Covenant who tragically lost her life. This was written during early COVID. She has a poignant reminder to open our heart to whatever trial God brings our way. I wanted to share the beauty with you.
I ache for Nashville and the Covenant community, I ache for all of us, I ache for the families impacted directly and tangentially, I ache that evil gives us yet another trial to endure. But I am reminded that God is with us whatever comes our way.
https://www.thecovenantschool.com/whatever/?fbclid=IwAR3sUePW_UEK_vM61RTaoPekbj3mAZZ2B9MEVU949x4WEqQz5bpyfzr4cM8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.
And ridicule the ridiculous as this will help make your heart glad too. Demons hate laughter from the children of God.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/transgender-and-other-trans-words-definitions/
Job 8:21
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/palm-sunday-2nd-april-2023
That was beautiful Jennifer. Whatever God wants He will get and it is good. Such a hard thing for us humans to live by, but is needed. I am so working on that in my life now. I am reminded of what Jesus said to me once during my most depressive period - "everything is as it should be."
"everything is as it should be." Indeed it is. Although I say so myself, everything is going rather nicely and according to plan.
That reminds me of the story of Esther:
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this? Esther 4:14 - which came to me over the pandemic in an advertisment for a t-shirt that says "Perhaps You Were Made For a Time Like This"
I am trying to keep an open mind to other people's lives and the fact that we all live in troubling situations and that our Heavenly Father loves each and everyone of us. We are living on an earth that is being poisoned by nefarious forces through our air, water, food, medications,and etc. So no wonder the world is in commotion and confusion.
It's a mess, but I guess it always has been. God gave us free will and we do what we like, but when it comes to the children, I have a hard time with the evil we are doing to them. Even Jesus warned against destroying the children.
Yes, the first part of Matthew chapter 18 comes to my mind, especially verse 6 regarding the millstone and verse 8 regarding cutting off offending hands and feet. This is serious information about consequences for offending little children.
"God, please show us some earthly righteous anger and justice against the trans tyranny waging against humans now. "
Well, there is their figurative and literal evolutionary dead-end?
Most likely not. Narcissists always look for ways to get what they want. They will use surrogates/donors to procreate, like gay people do. And then raise the children in their trans tyranny.
They have the psychological, moral and biological odour of a dead-end. Subjugation also has a host of unexpected and dire consequences.
Following on from my earlier comment, another take on psych meds and shooters: https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-decades-of-evidence-that-antidepressants
From the above link: "With the recent school shooter Audrey Hale, most of the focus has been on the shooter presumably taking testosterone, as this can trigger aggression. While like many things, this potentially explains what happened, in the reports I found where testosterone led to homicidal behavior, it required a pre-existing psychiatric illness (which would typically be treated with a violence inducing psychiatric medication) to also be present. Since a clear link has already been established to psychiatric medications causing this behavior (and based on the shooter’s background it is likely some were prescribed), I would suggest that until more information becomes known, the standard psychiatric medication violence it is a more probable explanation for the recent tragic events."
This is one witness. I have seen plenty of others over the years, and I was on one of the meds mentioned in the post (a tricyclic, not an SSRI), and I have directly experienced how it can affect the mind, blurring the line between awake and asleep. I didn't know better back then, and I believed the "chemical imbalance" lie until I eventually read one of the books that exposed it. I ended up taking myself off of it, and solving the problem another way, by reconciling with God. Depression suddenly gone after most of 40 years. (That was my experience; others may have more severe difficulties. I know someone now, a believer, that is struggling greatly with psych diagnoses and meds.)
So wait and see; we don't know about this latest case. But the historical pattern is pretty clear.
You are absolutely right. I can only imagine the amount of meds that person was on. Your experience with mind-altering meds for depression mirrors my own. I also believed the"chemical imbalance" lie. Depression/anxiety meds are worse than the covid shots, especially for children who are put on them for life. My life long depression was cured by one prayer, immediately.
Amen.
Well, I have to give you credit for not mentioning transsexuals, of which I am one. What we are seeing could be described as a fusion of transgenderism with medical treatment originally intended only for transsexuals. The safeguards, such as they were, that were designed to prevent this kind of thing from happening were officially eliminated as of last year. It is all quite evil.
I have not been a fan of the word "transgender", let alone "transgenderism". I used it for a brief time when I was sorting out what had been going on with me, a process of self-diagnosis 20 years ago, but then when things clarified, I dropped it like a hot potato. The word "transgender" was originally coined by a doctor whose name I forget, and was so broadly defined from the start as to be largely meaningless. That makes it a perfect word for the current madness. It was then picked up by a cross-dresser who claimed, falsely, to have coined it, and who used it to mean essentially a cross-dresser that is not transsexual.
I hope that clarifies everything. If I hadn't lived among the trans community for five years, it wouldn't make any sense to me either. There was some very weird stuff going on with the transsexuals as well, and that is what the safeguards -- the gatekeepers -- were supposed to be for. Now it's all merged and weird and there apparently are no gatekeepers, just salespeople. It makes me sick to think about this, and mostly I don't think about it too much.
For some strange reason you don't find too many transsexuals in the the conservative Christian world. I wonder why. I knew one other personally, a Roman Catholic who eventually left that church over the "counseling" she received. The cross-dressers are stealthier, and seem to feel less pressure to leave, although from what I can tell from our local scene, by now most of them have given up on God. Meanwhile the conservative churches (I don't care what "denomination") continue in their own sexual sins, while pointing the finger at others as the guilty ones deserving of persecution. (So watch out with that one, it's a trap.) I am so glad Jesus didn't behave like that.
I don't know for sure what I am doing back with these churches, other than that that is where God led me. I have no other excuse for it. I'm on my third one now. I am not "stealth" because that would not only be dishonest but would be at odds with reality, and I must therefore participate on the fringes. The "church hesitant" claim in my Substack profile is an understatement. I am no longer God-hesitant, however. Biblically, I seem to be a "Matthew 19:12a". I do wish I had understood the message from this verse about "don't marry if you are one of these". But I did receive other warnings, that I ignored.
If you want to understand what happened with this latest shooter, forget the trans malarkey (we've already been through this with "dangerous" autistic people -- hey, I'm both!) and look for evidence of psych med usage, just as with the other shooters. I'm not saying this one isn't an exception, but I will be surprised if it is.
Interesting comment. I truly don't know what a transsexual is. Seriously. All I know is that men want to be women and women want to be men in this society and if you don't lop off your God-given genitals when you are a child it is discrimination and evil. It doesn't sound right to me. I don't know your personal history other than what you've written here, but God called you back to Him for a reason. Just follow Him in everything He says and does. I am no longer the person I was even five years ago and that is a good thing.
"Transsexual" was at one time a medical diagnosis, a psychiatric one, based upon stated symptoms. Now, I have no idea how it is being used. Because the diagnosis was determined from what the patient said, many different underlying situations could have led to it, and that is one reason the hormone & surgery gatekeepers were so important. But still, it was not as broadly defined as "transgender", which could mean just about anything.
What I know about it is from my personal experience, not from the WPATH of 20 years ago. Very early in life, when I was just coming to understand that there were girls and boys, and noticing that they were somehow different, I saw the girls as similar to me and the boys as something rather different, a difference that would widen over time. There was no sexual aspect to it at that age (and I don't know my age then, but I was walking and talking).
I must have said something to my mother about it, and it can't have gone well. I blocked most of the memory. That is when I went into the closet. In that state, I developed some fairly severe mental problems that I have never shared with anyone and am not planning to. But I will mention that they existed. It's not a good way to treat a child, forcing him or her into silence.
Prior to puberty I had a plan to "change sides" when I grew up and left home. It wasn't much of a plan -- that was the entire plan. I was an only child and I did not know anything about "anatomical differences".
At puberty, the boys went one way, the girls went another, and I liked going for walks instead, uninterested in what they were doing. I would eventually figure out that I am asexual, perhaps something to do with brain damage at birth coupled with endocrine dysfunction and the resulting partially-failed puberty.
At about the same time, I learned about the anatomical differences. I won't go into detail, but let's just say it was an unusual way to find out, from reading something I found in a wastebasket, and leave it at that, and that my parents told me nothing. That was the start of 40+ years of gender dysphoria, as my plan fell apart, not to be revived until I was around 55 and contemplating the cancer risk posed by the endocrine disorder. The severe depression had ended at age 40, however, as I mentioned previously.
Part of this story is typical of transsexuals, and part of it -- the endocrine disorder, the asexuality, and the eventual cancer -- is not. I associate the term with early childhood onset, and no change in gender identity throughout life. The medical industry has been more "flexible" with the definition, presumably in order to expand their customer base. The actual standard was that it was necessary to satisfy the gatekeepers, important for malpractice insurance coverage I assume. Now, as of 2022, the gatekeepers are gone.
I've mentioned the gatekeepers repeatedly without saying anything else about them. For me they were a PhD psychologist, an MMFC counselor, and an MD (this one also a DO). The MD required letters from the psychologist and counselor to prescribe hormones (I took estradiol at low dose; it was not really necessary but I wanted to see if it helped with my autism). The surgeon, Dr. Toby Meltzer, required letters from all three. It was a long process, culminating in a "Real Life Experience" year that was largely redundant in my case, but important generally because of the subjective nature of the diagnosis. It was meant as an opportunity to back out without any major irreversible effects. For me, it was a time for cancer diagnosis and treatment. A surgical cancellation opening let me shorten it to 10 months.
Now, the gatekeepers are no more and all caution has been thrown to the wind. "Irreversible" has become "profitable" (more surgery, cancer treatment, or whatever). My guess is that suicide rates are up, not down, but who's counting.
Thank you for that very personal information CM. I was thinking about you and thought maybe God needs you to counter this current trans tyranny movement of chaos and destruction. As you note, the gatekeepers are all gone (chaos) and there is no pushback from those who have gone before. God needs you to help. That's just my two cents.
Are you OK?
Amen.
Demons live among us and rule over what was formerly called Christendom. That they've emerged after the West shucked off Christianity is no surprise.